The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
SETTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.


Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters = Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs at
Police Headquarters.
Live Oak Lodge of Odd Fellows will meet
tonight and elect officers.
After tomorrow, no papers will be sent
to subscribers in the city whose subscrip-
tions are not paid in advance.
About 10000 have been added TO the
hotel subscription in the past two days 1t
looks as though the new hotel is certainty.
John Ryan, native of Great Britain,
took the oath of allegiance in the Superior
Court yesterday and became citizen of the
United States.
There will be meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Jasper Festival at the
committees headquarters, over OlmStead q
Co. IS bank, tonight at S:l5 o'clock.
The subscription committees for the JAS
per festival are meeting with great success.
One committee has secured LOO, and has
not yet finished canvassing. 1t is not Bay
street committee either.
The firemen were called out at Z o'clock
last night by burning chimney IN Chris
Lang's house at Hull and West Broad
streets. The fire was extinguished with q
low DucketSIull OF water.
John Williams the negro who was shot
by young Oscar Marin on Monday, died at
St Jos aph's Infirmary yesterday. Coroner
Dixon was notified and will bold an inquest
this morning. Marin in still in jail.
There will be but four occupants of the
mourners' bench in the Police Court this
morning, that being the number of arrests
up to- l2 o'clock last night. This indicates
that the Christmas supply of 'hurrah juice"
is about exhausted, and that matters will
now resume their normal quietude in police
circles.
The Brunswick and Western Railway
Passenger Department has issued the follow
ing circular: Passengers desiring to stop at
local points must purchase tickets to point
at which they wish to leave the train. Stop
over checks will not be issued by conduc-
tors upon Brunswick and Western local
tickets.
Constable McDermott yesterday arrested
an escaped negro convict named Stokes, in
Yamacraw. and lodged him in jail Stokes
was serving twelve months sentence in
the county chain gapg, but escaped, taking
with him $50 belonging to Chief Shuman.
He went to Augusta, where he had good
time as long as his money lasted, and came
back to this city to spend Christmas among
his chums
The curves on the line of the Rural Re-
sort railway at West Broad, Bay and In
dian streets, have been put in. The switch
for Indian street is expected to arrive to-
day, and will be put down without delay.
AS soon as that is done car will be run
regularly from the City Exchange TO the
canal The iron for the entire line is looked
for daily, and as soon as it arrives the work
will be pushed forward as rapidly as men
and money can do it.
William Dixon and Adam Matthews, who
were indicted along with Tom Golden for
robbing the Pulaski House wine vault, plead
guilty in the Superior Court yesterday, and
+ rey were sentenced to ten months on the
chain gang Both Dixon and Matthews
have been in Jail since last April, and the
prosecution and Solicitor-General thought
they had been punished pretty well already
Golden is in jail awaiting a hearing of the
motion for a new trial in his case.
Photographs of views yon Tybee Island
and along the line of the Savannah and
Tybee railroad are being taken with the
view of having engravings made for de-
scriptive pamphlet TO be published early in
the year. The island aud the adj acent waters
have been the scene of many stirring events
in the early history of the colony, and also
during the late war, and book such as
that proposed will doubtless be very
effective method of advertising our favorite
seaside resort.
There is the usual talk among the ice men
about a late crop. The Kennebec harvest
will it is said, he considerably later than it
has been for number Of years. Savannah
gets the larger part of its ice, except that
manufactured here, from Maine. The Ken
nebec froze over Dec. %. and ice is being
gathered there now, though in small guam
titles Ice-cutting commenced last year in
Maine on Jan. J. The mild weather in
Maine this winter is extraordinary. The
present year is only the fourth in fifty years
in which the Kennebec remained open as
late as Dec. %.